Game 18 • SWAC Game 9 • Feb. 1, 2016 • 5:30 p.m.Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers (9-8, 5-3 SWAC)atAlabama State Lady Hornets (8-9, 6-2 SWAC)Dunn-Oliver Acadome • Montgomery, Ala.Radio: KPVU 91.3 FM (Play-by-play: Leonard Moon) MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers (9-8, 5-3 SWAC) make the trip south from Huntsville, Ala. for a Monday evening contest at Alabama State to complete the first round of Southwestern Athletic Conference play. The Lady Panthers opened their Alabama road trip with a 67-52 win at Alabama A&M on Saturday.
Larissa Scott scored 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds in leading PVAMU to its fourth consecutive triumph.
Alabama State (8-9, 6-2 SWAC) will put its own winning streak on the line Monday; the Lady Hornets handed first-place Texas Southern its first defeat in SWAC play with a 57-51 win over the Lady Tigers. The win over TSU was Alabama State's sixth consecutive win.
The seriesPrairie View A&M is 28-40 against the Lady Hornets since Alabama State joined the SWAC in 1982. The Lady Panthers are 6-4 over the last 10 meetings, though Alabama State swept the 2015 season series.
- Prairie View A&M is 8-24 in Montgomery since ASU joined the SWAC, with seven of those wins occurring in the last 10 seasons.
- The Lady Panthers' .412 win percentage is the highest mark against any out-of-state SWAC program that joined the league prior to the 1990s.
- The Lady Panthers compiled a nine-game winning streak over Alabama State from 2007 through 2010.
On the Road Again …
- The Lady Panthers are 4-7 away from the Prairie View A&M campus. They are 4-6 in true road games, and lost 79-58 to North Dakota State on a neutral court (Wichita State).
- Prairie View A&M defeated Alabama A&M 67-52 on Saturday. The team's 62-52 win at Jackson State 62-52 on Jan. 18, snapped a six-game losing streak away from home.
- The Lady Panthers also have road wins at Nicholls State and Louisiana Tech; the win at Louisiana Tech was the Lady Techsters' first loss to a current SWAC opponent in 40 years.
- PVAMU averages 59.1 points per game and allows their opponents 70.8 points per contest away from Prairie View.
- Lamaria Cole averages 14.7 points and 3.8 assists per game in road games and neutral-court games.
- Larissa Scott's rebounding average leaves her just shy of averaging a double-double away from home (10.7 points and 9.5 rebounds per game).Â
- Scott shoots 51.8 percent (57 of 110) from the field in such games.
- Alexus Parker averages 10.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per contest outside Waller County, Texas.
… to Sweet Home Alabama
- The Lady Panthers are 22-8 in the state of Alabama since the 2005-06 season. That record includes an 8-1 postseason record as the Lady Panthers claimed the 2007 and '09 SWAC Tournament championships in Birmingham.
- PVAMU has compiled a 14-7 record on the SWAC's Alabama road trip between 2006 and 2016.
- The Lady Panthers are 7-3 at Alabama State, and 7-4 at Alabama A&M during that time.
- Five current Lady Panthers played NCAA basketball games in Alabama prior to this season.
- Alexus Parker has averaged 11.2 points and 6.0 rebounds per contest over her previous five games on the Alabama trips. She shoots 42.3 percent from the field (22 of 52) and 83.3 percent (10 of 12) from the free throw line.
- Larissa Scott has averaged 10.2 points and 5.0 rebounds over five games in Alabama, shooting 52.6 percent (20 of 38) from the field and 73.3 percent (11 of 15) from the line. Saturday's game at Alabama A&M was her first in the state in three years.
